Topic: [ANN][BLC] Blakecoin Blake-256 for GPU/FPGA With Merged Mined Pools Stable Net - page 120. (Read 409641 times)

I have an idea for pool owners: providing a stratum+tcp link to port 80 would be great for those behind restrictive firewalls

I use a cheap version of the official Xilinx USB Cable (DLC9G) and that works flawlessly

looks just like this Image

Can't help with the cable building but, I did find one for cheap.  Page #84 in this thread talks about the FPGA options.  Cheers!

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Hi,

I am trying to mine blakecoin using a Lancelot board. Am I correct in thinking I need to do the following:

1. Use impact utility to flash the Lancelot board - this requires a JTAG programmer.
2. Mine with modified cgminer

Am I missing anything here? Can anyone point me in the direction of instructions to build the Jtag Cable?

I have managed to successfully mine using my 7950 rig.

Thanks.

Where did you get the cudaminer from? And why do you want to send me an infected file?

pm kr105 he runs that pool
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/kr105-12229

No no i am using cuda miner for BLC.
I can upload you miner if you dont affraid virus

what is goin on www.blakecoinpool.org ? My payment stuck.

No cudaminer yet, but if you look at the thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-cudaminer-ccminer-cuda-based-mining-applications-windowslinuxmacosx-167229 youll see the dev is considering adding blake support. you could msg the dev to show your support for this.

I'd love to mine BLC on my nvidia card with some sort of cudaminer. For us with nvidia cards, cgminer does not yield acceptable results.
Is it even possible to mine BLC with CUDA? Because if not, that might be the reason why no cudaminer exists yet...

The poll for selecting the banner image for Blakecoin on pxlcoin.com is now ready! Please vote!!

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I am bit busy atm sry  

@Lyddite
Merge mining = like BTC/NMC

@rupy
QT Wallet losing sync = Boost Library issue fixed by using boost 1.55 for build (0.9.0 will use boost 1.55)

The win wallet GUI sometimes says it's unsynced, why is that... you know with the green bar at the bottom which says "0 hours"?!

Interesting, can you elaborate on this?

-Lyddite

read this for an Introduction about Blakecoin
http://blakecoin.org/Blakecoin_Introduction.pdf

The Blake-256 algorithim is faster and same security than SHA-256D while using 3% less power and compared with Scrypt based coins is 14% less power on GPU, It is also on the FPGA thanks to the efforts of kramble and is 2x faster than SHA-256D without using any extra power and to put a cherry on top it is going to be merged mined at a pool level with other Blake-256 coins (pool can mine multi coins at same time e.g like BTC/NMC)

If Blake-256 had an ASIC built it would use less silicon space compared with SHA-256D ~40-50% and thus power so the chips would be cheaper to produce in volume making the ASIC based mining devices cheap not more expensive like you can see with Scrypt ASICs while using less power/silicon space at same manufacturing process (currently no ASIC has been made for the 8 round Blake-256)

The reward structure is also a more normal economic based system that should keep mining for a long time see here for some graphs thanks to Calhil
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5132365

Also worth noting is the the higher the network hash rate the better the average block find time is on average this is due to the law of large numbers as the difficulty is set based on past random event (block find)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers

"rival bitcoin soon"
that is a very vague term a new technology can take 1-2 years to mature correctly and establish itself in the market  
  

I keep on seeing BlakeCoin touted as Bitcoin 2.0 in some places. But why? It has been out for quite some time and would the average investor understand whats better? Could someone please explain to me what advantages it has and why it could be a darkhorse to rival bitcoin soon.

I would love to be if I am able to.

I will keep visiting this thread in case someone decided to help. I love BAMT/SMOS because if I mess something up, I can quickly make another USB and my mining machine will be up again within few minutes instead of going through all the setup hassles again.

I don't think anyone has ported Blake-256 to BAMT/SMOS distro yet 

You are welcome to be the first 

I love to try this coin mining.

Anyone has instruction how to compile miner on BAMT/SMOS distro?

Thanks for the report. The poolside hash is a bit disappointing, you should be getting 600 and 664MHash/s for those clock speeds. It's possible my interface code is dropping some hashes (I took the FIFO out when I did the initial build a few months back), but it shouldn't be that drastic a drop. I'll see if I can put it back in.

34C is nothing to worry about, the FPGAs will be fine up to 60C (heatsink temperature) which is about as hot as you can comfortably touch (as a quick check). It may be worth trying the X6500 mine.py as that lets you set the clock speed manually. I'd like to know how fast it will go before we get HW errors.

After an overnight run I see clock speeds of 150 and 166MHz. Pool side hashrate reads 480MHs.

I can obtain far higher hashrates and clock speeds, but MPBM clocks down the chips due to temperature. Even at the current low clock rates temps are at 34C.